The ultimate goal is the introduction of hydrogen fuel
cell powered vehicles that emit only water and remove the vehicle from the environmental debate.
The lightning round focuses on hydrogen fuel
cell powered vehicles.
The aim now for Daimler and its allies is to ensure that the number of fuel -
cell powered vehicles running on generatively produced hydrogen is constantly increasing, demonstrating the market maturity of the fuel cell solution.
The LF - FC concept is a fuel
cell powered vehicle.
Not exact matches
Battery -
powered cars offered by the likes of Tesla are gaining traction faster than fuel
cell vehicles backed by Hyundai and Toyota Motor Corp..
The new additions include three plug - in hybrid
vehicles, which come on top of eight battery -
powered cars and two fuel -
cell vehicles.
Maybe algae will scale up from a few thousand gallons a month to billions of gallons a day, or solar energy can be converted to hydrogen, which will then
power the planet's 600 million
vehicles via fuel
cells; but the market has no way to price the possibility than essential resources will enter permanent depletion declines and that no cheap, scalable substitute exists.
Beyond using this clean electricity to
power homes, offices and manufacturing plants, the Chinese also view it as the fuel of choice for the growing number of
vehicles hitting the road, setting a goal of putting five million «new energy»
vehicles (EVs, plug - in hybrids and fuel -
cell cars) on the road by 2020.
They include ECD's low - cost
cell for solar
power; «rewritable» compact discs and DVDs; an instant - start, regenerative fuel
cell currently in development; and a rechargeable nickel - hydride battery for
powering hybrid - electric
vehicles, which ECD is producing in a joint venture with Texaco.
And other carmakers like Toyota Motor and Honda are investing heavily in eco-friendly cars; however, they are betting big that the
vehicles will be
powered by hydrogen fuel
cells, rather than rechargeable electric batteries.
Mississauga, Ontario - headquartered Hydrogenics Corporation, a leading developer and manufacturer of hydrogen generation technology and hydrogen fuel
cell systems, today announced that it has received an order valued at C$ 7.8 million to supply fuel
cell power systems for zero - emission
vehicles in China.
Developers Phinergy and Alcoa envision the design as a range extender for electric
vehicles, providing more than 1,000 miles of range on a charge, or as an emergency
power solution, since the
cells have a theoretically infinite shelf life.
Fuel -
cell -
powered vehicles could offer more than twice the efficiency of today's autos.
Burned or used in fuel
cells, hydrogen is an appealing option for
powering future automotive
vehicles for several reasons.
The work, which appears in the November 27, 2014, edition of Science Express, points to new avenues for producing single - site supported gold catalysts that could produce high - grade hydrogen for cleaner energy use in fuel -
cell powered devices, including
vehicles.
Energy - converting devices like fuel
cells being developed to
power some types of electric
vehicles rely on platinum's catalytic properties to transform
The program is an opportunity for consumers in California, New York State and the District of Columbia to test about 100 of the company's Equinox sports utility
vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel
cells.
Hydrogen fuel
cells may be the best option for
powering zero - emission
vehicles: Toyota has just introduced a hydrogen -
powered car in Japan and will make them available in the United States in 2015.
Clean electricity could produce hydrogen for fuel -
cell -
powered vehicles and replace on - site boilers and furnaces for residential heating.
Researchers at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are turning to extremely tiny tubes and rods to boost
power and durability in lithium - ion batteries, the energy sources for
cell phones, laptops, and electric
vehicles.
Unlike gasoline -
powered cars, battery and fuel
cell vehicles emit zero carbon when driven.
The scenarios focused on 10 to 20 years in the future, when battery and fuel
cell vehicles are expected to be in much wider use, and when solar
power and electrolyzers are cost competitive with the electric grid.
In the end, the driving personalities of the two test
vehicles, with a few exceptions, were close enough to those of ordinary gasoline -
powered cars that if buyers ultimately reject fuel -
cell machines, it won't be because the cars seem unfamiliar from behind the wheel.
Reducing the platinum in fuel -
cell catalysts could help bring hydrogen -
powered vehicles to the mass market
Ultimately, hybrid
vehicles and electric cars — whether
powered by batteries or fuel
cells — will deliver even more environmental rewards.
Unfortunately, the other great hope for
vehicles that exhaust no carbon — those
powered by hydrogen - fed fuel
cells — remains too pricey for broad sales.
The unlikely material may one day compete with more high - tech solutions such as carbon nanotubes for storing hydrogen for fuel -
cell -
powered vehicles.
The batteries will extend the range of electric
vehicles and plug - in hybrid electric
vehicles, and provide more
power with fewer charges to personal electronics like
cell phones and laptops.
As a zero - emission fuel, the hydrogen can be recombined with oxygen to produce electric
power on demand, such as onboard a fuel -
cell vehicle.
In the field, the researchers often had to use their
vehicle batteries to
power the centrifuges used to separate out white blood
cells from their samples, and then add buffering chemicals to stabilise the DNA so it would not degrade under the African sun.
Incorporated directly into a
cell phone housing, the team's nanogenerator could harvest and convert vibration energy from a surface, such as the passenger seat of a moving
vehicle, into
power for the phone.
Now Iceland says it is more likely that its future
vehicle fleet will combine fuel
cell vehicles with battery -
powered electrics, which suits Daimler just fine.
The carmaker realized that if its vision of battery -
powered electric
vehicles gaining mass appeal in tandem with fuel
cell electrics was to come true, it needed to so something about the lack of hydrogen infrastructure.
Mass - market fuel -
cell vehicles are an attractive prospect because they will offer the range and fueling convenience of today's diesel and gas -
powered vehicles while providing the benefits of sustainability in personal transportation.
Those electric cars — combined with improvements in the fuel efficiency of existing internal combustion engines, new hybrid
power trains and even fuel -
cell vehicles — could begin to reduce the roughly $ 1 billion a day the U.S. spends on imported oil.
In the meantime, if you want to see full - size hydrogen -
powered vehicles in action, take a trip to Reykjavík or Stuttgart: In 2001 the European Union ordered fuel
cells for 30 bus engines from the Canadian company Ballard
Power Systems.
Unlike battery -
powered electric
vehicles, fuel -
cell powered ones have a long cruising range — up to 650 kilometers per tank (the fuel is usually compressed hydrogen gas); a hydrogen fuel refill only takes about three minutes.
Fuel -
cell vehicles have long promised several major advantages over those
powered by electricity or hydrocarbons.
The most promising of these options include renewable sources of a variety of types, advanced fossil - fuel technologies that can capture and sequester carbon, and hydrogen -
powered fuel
cells for
vehicle propulsion and dispersed electricity generation.
Last year, General Motors and Honda announced plans to jointly develop hydrogen fuel
cell cars, and Hyundai will lease its Tucson Fuel Cell hydrogen - powered vehicle in California this spr
cell cars, and Hyundai will lease its Tucson Fuel
Cell hydrogen - powered vehicle in California this spr
Cell hydrogen -
powered vehicle in California this spring.
If their
power sources lasted longer and cost less, fuel
cell vehicles could go mainstream faster.
Electric
vehicles,
powered by hydrogen fuel
cells, provide the demanded driving range and low environmental impact.
However, hydrogen fuel
cell powered electric
vehicles suffer from a refueling problem.
GM says its 119 -
vehicle hydrogen test fleet has racked up 3.1 million miles on fuel
cell power.
BMW has released details on an i8 research
vehicle powered by a hydrogen fuel
cell.
Said to be acting as a test bed for new technology, the fuel
cell car is a precursor to mass production hydrogen
powered vehicles, which BMW says could arrive by 2020.
Discover the impressive plug - in hybrid, electric and hydrogen fuel
cell -
powered vehicles.
Aimed at the year 2025, Mercedes made two big statements with the fuel -
cell -
powered vehicle: It planned to make big, fast luxury liners that cruise the autobahn at triple - digit speeds forever, and secondly it did not believe batteries alone could meet that challenge, at least not in the next few product cycles.
The Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel -
cell vehicle offers the benefits of zero - emissions transportation with the cruising range of a gas -
powered engine, eliminating the range anxiety of all - electric cars.
Mercedes says the GLC F -
Cell provides around 31 miles of range on battery
power alone, which means most owners could go long periods of time without depending on the
vehicle's hydrogen equation.